Gradual Trauma

If you are experiencing any Tailbone pain when sitting, it indicates a tailbone injury or problem.   DO NOT IGNORE IT.

Tailbone pain can develop gradually as the result of cumulative forces applied to the coccyx.   It might start with a sensation of discomfort during the first experience of gradual traumatic forces (broken-down seat or chair).

When gradual physical forces are applied to the tailbone area, people usually do not experience any symptoms or pain immediately.  This type of injury can account for some of the idiopathic tailbone pain. (Idiopathic tailbone pain source is unknown or obscure.)

Often a person is ignorant of gradual traumatic forces until pain or a significant level discomfort presents, possibly hours or days later.

The minimal gradual traumatic forces are difficult to detect  by  an individual patient as the cause of tailbone pain or injury. Lack of timely detection and removal or modification of gradual traumatic forces will cause the pain or injury over time.

The cumulative trauma and partial adaptation to the pain can lead to subsequently more complaints. Furthermore, symptoms and pain may develop beyond the tailbone region.

The following is a list of gradual forces that tailbone sufferers have experienced and reported.   Please note that most of these activities appear to be harmless as many people are able to do it with seemingly no problem:

• Prolonged exercising/stretching on hardwood floor
• Prolonged sitting
• Prolonged sitting on non-ergonomic chair
• Prolonged sitting during pregnancy
• Prolonged sitting on a lawn chair
• Prolonged sitting on sands at the beach
• Sitting on a bicycle seat with the gel padding
• Sitting on a bicycle seat/saddle with no ergonomics
• Sitting on a broken down car seat or office chair
• Sitting on ride-on mower
• Sitting on hard surfaces such as stadium bleachers